Search results for: place making
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Marketing 2.0, Storytelling | May 19, 2020
THINKSHOPPING BRAND CHANGE | GIRVIN’S BRANDSCAPING CHANGE MANAGEMENT, ENTERPRISE EVOLUTIONS AND ACCELERATED BRAND TRANSITIONING EVERYTHING CHANGES: IT’S THE ONE CONSTANT TO EXPECT—BETTER TO BE READY TO MOVE AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE. In your constant study of the rising... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Brands, Concepts, Storytelling | Jun 5, 2019
THE WHORL OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS. A brand is like a spiral—could be a channel, could be the opening of a drain, could be a spigot pouring forth—but in one way or another—it’s a channel: outflow, inflow. Its success will be the fluency of its convergence—the... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Scent | Feb 28, 2017
AND THE PERFUME OF ITS MAKING THE DARK RESINS OF FIRE AND WOOD — AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PITCH, BURNING, ASH AND THE INCENSED DUST OF FRAGRANCE. I live and dream in the forest — an old sitka grove out on the coast, washed in fog from the sea. Perfume is a way of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Motion Pictures, Places, Retail, Storytelling, Trends | Aug 11, 2011
Working the World: Innovations and Revelations, the Future Reclaimed I N N O V A T I O N C H A N N E L S Working in varying parts of the world, depending on the culture, your relationships there invariably offer to show you the newest and the coolest in town. Being... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Storytelling | Nov 2, 2008
This is the first in a series on Human Brand | defining the inextricable link between people, founding vision and the brands that they produce. You’ve got to find what you love. Steve Jobs There’s passion here for me. Because I can personally relate to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers | Dec 10, 2015
Focusing: the Flow of Ideas, Strokes and Inspiration: Teaching Calligraphy and Designed Exploration A study of letterforms, the calligraphic drawing of educational references, paleography and alphabetic history, photographic brand boards, broadsides on rhythm and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Nov 12, 2015
Lines of thought: sight lines | NYC, LONDON, COPALIS, DECATUR ISLAND, AND SEATTLE What about lines? Light lines. Lines of journey — pathways of the mapping lines of place, to place. I go someplace — and my swirl of journey is all the string of a line, captured. I was... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Interior Design, Places | May 20, 2014
The layering of textured sensation at Comme des Garçons | Dover Street Market | NYC In one’s career, there are intersections, points at which you make a crossroads crossing — you come into the intersection going one way, and you leave that, as crossing... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Designers | Jun 10, 2008
Exploring nature, industrial design, architecture and planning — patterns of designed intelligence. Arthropods are animals that belong to the Phylum Arthropoda that include the insects, the arachnids and the crustaceans. When I was young, and to this day,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, General, Places, Trends | May 9, 2008
My friend Dawn Clark, AIA LEED®AP, Principal at NBBJ | Design — sent along this story; digging in, I’ve found more. I’ve written a lot about patterning. Actually, I’m captivated by it. Patterning as a kind of subtle substrate brand messaging,... Read More
